Workshop in the Nencki Institute, 14-15 May 2004
Workshop in the Nencki Institute, 14-15 May 2004 Organizer Andrzej Wróbel, Nencki Institute
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SEMIOTICS OF THE NEURONAL SYSTEMS
Friday, May 14
16:00 - 19:00 Alphabet and semantics
- Opening Lecture: George L Gerstein (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Searching for significance in spatio-temporal firing patterns
- Ad Aertsen, (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany) Neural dynamics in cortical networks: precision and variability
- Coffee
- Wioletta Waleszczyk (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland) Movement detection in cat's colliculus superior
- Sivert Lindström (Uiversity of Linköping, Sweden) The cortico-geniculate system as a neuronal amplifier
Saturday, May 15
9:15 - 12:15 Syntax and pragmatics
- Ewa Kublik (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland) Contextual dependence of sensory processing at the barrel cortex of awake rat
- Amos Arieli (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Ongoing activity and the 'state of mind': the role of spontaneously emerging cortical states in visual perception and motor action
- Coffee
- Reinhard Eckhorn (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) Neural mechanisms of visual associative processing
- Jean Mark Edeline (CNRS, Orsey Cedex, France) Evoked oscillations and bursts firing: two facets of temporal processing in the thalamo-cortical auditory system
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 16:45 Flexibility and generality
- Kevin D. Fox (Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom) Mechanisms underlying neuronal plasticity in the cerebral cortex
- Grzegorz Hess (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Synaptic plasticity and neuromodulation of local connections in rat motor cortex
- Coffee
- Marian Lewandowski (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Slow oscillation circuit of intergeniculate leaflet
- Michał Żochowski (Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw, Poland and University of Michigan, USA) Odor evoked oscillations in turtle's olfactory bulb and their possible role in enhancement of the temporal resolution of odor representations
16:45 - 17:00 General discussion & conclusions